Female Voices Rock-Back in the Theater for 2021

https://youtu.be/NRdockgWF-8 Hosted by Jason Godbey, Creative Director of Behind the Rabbit Productions [December 2nd, New York City] Female Voices Rock was back in a theater for the first time since 2019. In 2020, the festival was exclusively online due to the Covid 19 pandemic. The festival is running this weekend as a hybrid event offering …

Crowdfunding Spotlight: LADYLIKE

...Ladylike sets out to point a modern, comedic lens at the beginning of the 20th century and ask: what sort of innate power can we all find when we release ourselves and others from the rigid expectations of the gender binary?

Movie Release: YOU CAN’T KILL MEME

This release comes to us from UTOPIA Feature Documentary Spotlights Political Memes  Utopia is set to release YOU CAN’T KILL MEME, an all new feature documentary that explores the silently powerful world of political meme culture and how it can be used and exploited for political gain, on digital platforms on December 7th, 2021. A …

Episode 1011: Soho International Film Festival 2021

https://youtu.be/VaJDmxCKlrg Hosted by Jason Godbey & Kayla Vera On this episode we interview the stars and filmmakers of the Soho International Film Festival on the red carpet for closing night of the 2021 festival including Executive Director and Head of Programming Sibyl Santiago (pictured above), Bradford Devins, Kiki Tsakalakis, Bryan Santiago, Michaela Zannou, Michael Shanahan, …

Theater Nerd Heaven- TICK, TICK…BOOM!

By Maribeth Thueson, NRFTW Contributor Before Jonathan Larson wrote the Broadway blockbuster Rent, he wrote an autobiographical one-man rock show about his struggles as a composer. That show was later expanded to be a show for three singers and became the musical Tick, Tick. . .Boom!, which has now been made into a glorious movie …

Going Virtual with NYC Web Fest

This release comes to us from NYC Web Fest On Friday, November 12th, the 8th Annual NYC Web Fest kicked off its weekend of screenings, panels, networking events and awards with a virtual fireside chat with award-winning filmmaker from Breakthru Films, Annie Sundberg (director of Reversing Roe and Surviving Jeffrey Epstein). Paul Hamm, CEO of …

NEW MOVIE RELEASE: CAPTAINS OF ZA’ATARI

https://youtu.be/7x9ppZlrNIM This release comes to us from UTOPIA. CAPTAINS OF ZA'ATARI COMES TO SELECT THEATERS & ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS NOVEMBER 19, 2021 This documentary tells the story of two best friends trapped in the Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan. They have an undying dream of becoming professional soccer players. When a world renowned sports academy …

Episode 1008: Winter Film Awards 2021

https://youtu.be/jAkR07k_Gp4 Hosted by Jason Godbey, Behind the Rabbit Productions On this episode we recap the 10th Annual Winter Film Awards featuring interviews on the red carpet with Kayla Vera and movie reviews with William J. Hammon. In addition we update you on Soho International Film Festival and NYC Webfest. SIFF will be running from November …

Utopia Acquires Timely Feature Documentary – RED HEAVEN

https://youtu.be/Vqw3lHKQNYg This release comes to us by way of Utopia Los Angeles, CA – Utopia has acquired the U.S. rights to Red Heaven, a timely feature documentary that follows six young volunteers as they prepare for a yearlong NASA experiment designed to replicate the physical and psychological conditions of a mission to Mars. The film …

Episode 1007: New Faces New Voices 2021

In October New Faces New Voices returned to The Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn, NY. The festival features films from underrepresented communities in an attempt to bring their work to the public, and we were there to talk to some of the filmmakers on hand